One Week Left

Brr it's be really sunny out the past week but also really chilly in the shade! 

 

I had a full day yesterday - M and I went to Secret Nail and Beauty Supply store on Kingsway.  I got a few goodies: 10 pairs false lashes for $10.99 in a dramatic cut, crystal nail file (apparently will last forever and is much more sanitary than other nail files), another nail polish remover pump, and 3 O.P.I polishes for $5.99 each: Modern Girl, A Good Man-Darin Is Hard To Find, and Samoan Sand. Then we walked down a few blocks to look at some Korean DVDs to buy but for some reason the store was closed. But, I got a couple decadent squares of treats from this small Vietnamese/Chinese bakery ^^ Indulgence.

Then I headed downtown - the skytrain was packed! It came every 4 minutes but I had to miss 3 trains because there wasn't any room in them! Met up with Artemis and we tried scouting out restaurants/bar/lounges with TVs to watch the Canada vs. USA hockey game. After putting our names on the waiting lists at 4 or 5 restaurants with 1.5-2 hour waitlists, we wound up walking towards Denman and went to Chau - this Vietnamese restaurant (with yummy cocktails) and got good seats in front of the TV. Her friend, Steve, came to join us and it was cute - the whole 20 of us (3 + strangers) cheered, roared, and awwed it out. It was a good game even though Canada lost. 

Walked down to Denman to meet up with B and a few others at Banana Leaf where we shared Malaysian dishes! On the way back up to Granville Station, we saw those strobe "art" lights you can design and control online. 

Met up with Artemis. One of her friends is opening for a DJ at this small club on Hastings called Pop Opera.  The venue was previously known as 686 but has now changed and renovated. Quite nice inside with sleek seating, streamlined, white quilted banquettes, neat pendant lighting, and two bars - both cleanly lit from beneath. She invited me right before dinner and so I obviously wasn't dressed at all being in my scrubby work flats, a white t-shirt (my attempt to show off some canadian pride.. worn with my red and white CANADA scarf seen on every 3rd person downtown) and a casual cardigan. She brought me a black dress, though so it was fine - and my feet didn't hurt at all 'cause I didn't wear heels!

So even though cover was free for me, coat check was $5 PER ITEM. Expensive much?? That's what the Olympics bring.. inflated cover and coat check prices. Pop Opera wasn't totally happening, but A's friend, Ryan, was a great DJ! He's only 19 or 20 yrs old, too. He started off with the beginning of the Lion King's Circle of Life song (the tribal part) and mixed that which turned out to be really catchy and brought ppl to the dance floor. At midnight, everyone from PO went to Republic because there wasn't enough of a crowd to keep the club running so we limo-ed it over (my first time in one, actually). Republic was neat - also my first time there. I like it - very narrow, 2 floors, nice bar areas, nice, clean washrooms.

Sunday was Reggae night so we had this guy sing for a long time - he was so good. Sang Bob Marley and The Police (that's all I recognized haha). Ryan's cousin was in town and he wanted to show her some other clubs on Granville so we hopped across the street to Caprice. That was surprisingly a lot of fun - they were apparently playing Deadmau5 (I'm slowly getting to know these DJs...) and had overall awesome music. 

Someone mentioned that team Germany and USA? was at Republic last night... and that Alex Bilodeau was at PO on Saturday night.  I had a good time - M picked A and me up to drive us home~

Had lunch at Sushi Town with Becky today!

Oh I dyed my hair, too. It's pretty light.. we were going for an ash shade. I think I'm going to go back and get it redyed darker, though.

Man, I wish I had pictures to show you! Text on text is no fun to read or show. 

Currently typing e-mails, eating melba toast with tsatziki, blogging, waiting for laundry to finish...